Re: [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control -v4

2007-01-26 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 21:02 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:32:28 +0100 Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +long congestion_wait_interruptible(int rw, long timeout) +{ + long ret; + DEFINE_WAIT(wait); + wait_queue_head_t *wqh = congestion_wqh[rw]; +

Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-26 Thread David Miller
From: Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:17:56 -0800 On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:28:49PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 06:16:13AM +0530, Sunil Naidu wrote: Good thoughts ;-) I too believe in this - Where there is a Will, there is a Way! That's the

Re: [PATCH] libata-sff: Don't call bmdma_stop on non DMA capable controllers

2007-01-26 Thread David Miller
From: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:18:21 -0800 (PST) So on sparc64, ioport_resource really is just a container for the actual per-domain resource buckets that the hardware (within that domain) will then do the resource allocation from. Afaik. But you should

Re: [PATCH] libata-sff: Don't call bmdma_stop on non DMA capable controllers

2007-01-26 Thread David Miller
From: David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:09:40 +0800 My question was about _how_ you think this should be achieved in this particular case. You didn't like the suggestion that we should put your new special-case hack into the resource code... where/how _do_ you

Re: what kernel version embeds r1000 (RTL8168 Eth NICs)

2007-01-26 Thread Boris B. Zhmurov
Hello, Bernhard Walle. On 25.01.2007 12:36 you said the following: * Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-25 02:36]: Hello, I would like to know what version of the kernel will||had embed(ed) the r1000 driver. The r8169 driver which is in the kernel should have the same

Re: [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control -v4

2007-01-26 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 22:04 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:31:43 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: atomic_t is 32-bit. Put 16TB of memory under writeback and blam. We have systems with 8TB main

Re: [i2c] [PATCH] Add support for OneForAll remote JP1 parallel port interface

2007-01-26 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Jonathan, On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:41:39 +, Jonathan McDowell wrote: This simple patch adds support to i2c-parport for the OneForAll remote JP1 parallel port interfaces which can be found detailed at: http://www.hifi-remote.com/jp1/hardware.shtml These allow access to the internal

Re: [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control -v4

2007-01-26 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 09:00 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 21:02 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:32:28 +0100 Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +long congestion_wait_interruptible(int rw, long timeout) +{ + long ret; +

Re: [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control -v4

2007-01-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:03:37 +0100 Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 22:04 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:31:43 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: atomic_t is 32-bit.

Re: [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control -v4

2007-01-26 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 00:51 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: A patch against next -mm would suit, thanks. (But we already use atomic_long_t in generic code?) but there is currently no atomic_long_{inc,dec}_return, or any atomic_long_*_return function for that matter. Mathieu adds these missing

Re: SATA ahci Bug in 2.6.19.x

2007-01-26 Thread Stefan Priebe - FH
Hi! acpi=off does not help i've already tried that. Ok here some outputs: 1.) complete dmesg with 2.6.16.27 (works) Linux version 2.6.16.27amd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #6 SMP Sat Aug 26 14:29:07 CEST 2006 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820:

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Define the EF_AS_NO_RANDOM e_flag bit

2007-01-26 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Should we introduce per-arch asm/elf.h files to hold the relevant flag definitions then? On some architectures there are no bits left. On others you'd need to go through whomever maintains the relevant psABI to get a bit officially allocated. Really, it is very bad idea to

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0

2007-01-26 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! But I still believe it can be out. Do you believe it could be a user-space daemon or what? Yes, what prevents userspace daemon watching /dev/input/event* to provide this functionality? Pavel --- One

Re: [PATCH 2/3] ARM: Convert to use shared APM emulation.

2007-01-26 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle [EMAIL PROTECTED] arch/arm/Kconfig | 29 ++ arch/arm/common/sharpsl_pm.c |2 - arch/arm/kernel/Makefile |1 arch/arm/mach-pxa/corgi_pm.c |2 - arch/arm/mach-pxa/sharpsl_pm.c |2 -

Re: + make-good_sigevent-non-static.patch added to -mm tree

2007-01-26 Thread Sébastien Dugué
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:43:24 +0300 Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SИbastien DuguИ wrote: +struct task_struct *good_sigevent(sigevent_t *event) +{ + struct task_struct *task = current-group_leader; + + if ((event-sigev_notify SIGEV_THREAD_ID) == SIGEV_THREAD_ID) { +

Re: [patch] suspend/resume debugging: device filter

2007-01-26 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! it might be better to do this centrally in sysfs, via a per-device attribute, to individually enable suspend and resume on a per device basis, but my sysfs-fu is not strong enough for that now ;-) Here's a (compile tested only) patch that does this on a per-device basis, which is

Re: + make-good_sigevent-non-static.patch added to -mm tree

2007-01-26 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 01/26, S?bastien Dugu? wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:43:24 +0300 Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SИbastien DuguИ wrote: +struct task_struct *good_sigevent(sigevent_t *event) +{ + struct task_struct *task = current-group_leader; + + if ((event-sigev_notify

Re: [PATCH] namespaces: fix exit race by splitting exit

2007-01-26 Thread Daniel Hokka Zakrisson
Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Ok, could you verify that the following patch at least solves the oopsing? (I can't reproduce the oops with Daniel's test prog) thanks, -serge Indeed, this patch solves the oopsing, but so did the last one. I think I finally managed to figure out why too, as

Re: SATA ahci Bug in 2.6.19.x

2007-01-26 Thread Alan
The only difference is that I don't see the ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:0f.0[B] - GSI 21 (level, low) - IRQ 19 printk. The driver is AHCI but the device is a VIA chip. I'll get a caputre of the boot log when I find my serial cable. This could be related to the VIA PIC quirks that was

Re: [PATCH] namespaces: fix exit race by splitting exit

2007-01-26 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 01/26, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Ok, could you verify that the following patch at least solves the oopsing? (I can't reproduce the oops with Daniel's test prog) thanks, -serge Indeed, this patch solves the oopsing, but so did the last one. I think I

Re: [PATCH] libata-sff: Don't call bmdma_stop on non DMA capable controllers

2007-01-26 Thread Alan
Also, many ISA-only drivers actually have hardcoded PIO numbers (eg 0x1f0). Bad example - 0x1F0 is one of those that leaked into the PCI world as well 8) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [RFC] Limit the size of the pagecache

2007-01-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:15:10 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - One for stability When a customer constructs their detabase(Oracle), the system often goes to oom. This is because that the system cannot allocate DMA_ZOME memory for 32bit device. (USB or e100) Not

fsync occasionally very slow

2007-01-26 Thread Matthew Kirk
Hi I am working on an application that fsync(2) files and directories as needed.I’m seeing intermittent stalls on fsync that can last many seconds. The file system is mounted ext3, however I have reproduced the problem with ext2. The as scheduler is in use. I have also tried deadline. I

Re: + make-good_sigevent-non-static.patch added to -mm tree

2007-01-26 Thread Sébastien Dugué
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:08:01 +0300 Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/26, S?bastien Dugu? wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:43:24 +0300 Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SИbastien DuguИ wrote: +struct task_struct *good_sigevent(sigevent_t *event) +{ +

Re: unfixed regression in 2.6.20-rc6 (since 2.6.19)

2007-01-26 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 04:20:55PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote: 2.6.19 introduced changes to the UHCI handling of interrupt URBs that caused at least some keyspan USB-to-serial converters to fail, [...] I copied you when this patch was added to my tree,

Re: [PATCH] init: support preset lpj value as config option

2007-01-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:24:59 -0800 Tim Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Mundt wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 04:12:18PM -0800, Tim Bird wrote: This patch provides a config option for preset lpj, which means the value can be easily preserved, and conveyed between developers in a config

[PATCH 1/2] take 2: (was-kind-of: 3/5 SPI tx_default) 2.6.20-rc6

2007-01-26 Thread Hans-Peter Nilsson
From: David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:02:56 -0800 On Wednesday 24 January 2007 8:52 pm, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote: (Please CC me on replies, I'm not subscribed to LKML or the SPI list. Thanks.) The SD/MMC SPI-based protocol isn't really duplex. In the

[PATCH 2/2] take 2: (was-kind-of: 3/5 SPI tx_default) 2.6.20-rc6

2007-01-26 Thread Hans-Peter Nilsson
Just some trivial patches to make sure the existing drivers in the official tree don't *silently* fail with the introduction of default_tx_word. Never tested in any way. Not sure if this is all, for example I didn't look in arch/*. Signed-off-by: Hans-Peter Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -upr

Re: [RFC] Limit the size of the pagecache

2007-01-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:03:23 +1100 Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, it will be failing at order=4, because the allocator won't try very hard reclaim pagecache pages at that cutoff point. This needs to be fixed in the allocator. A simple and perhaps sufficient fix for this nommu

Re: Kernel 2.6.19.2 New RAID 5 Bug (oops when writing Samba - RAID5)

2007-01-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:37:15 -0500 (EST) Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without digging too deeply, I'd say you've hit the same bug Sami Farin and others have reported starting with 2.6.19: pages mapped with kmap_atomic() become unmapped during memcpy() or similar operations.

Re: Kernel 2.6.19.2 New RAID 5 Bug (oops when writing Samba - RAID5)

2007-01-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:37:15 -0500 (EST) Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without digging too deeply, I'd say you've hit the same bug Sami Farin and others have reported starting with 2.6.19: pages mapped with kmap_atomic() become

Re: [PATCH][RFC] incorrect direct io error handling (v3)

2007-01-26 Thread Dmitriy Monakhov
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:05:06 +0300 Dmitriy Monakhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: incorrect direct io error handling (v3) Changes from v2: - Remove BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(..)) for non blkdev. - vmtruncate() called from generic_file_aio_write(). -

Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] alsa: correct nonsensical sysfs device symlinks

2007-01-26 Thread xiphmont
On 1/25/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to do just a little more testing here (Takashi reminded me I have a bit more testing of my own to do). Can you give me the 'tree /sys/class/sound' output? Once I verify it's 'all good' (actually, I'm stalling; not in front of the machine

Re: Juju

2007-01-26 Thread Stefan Richter
Pete Zaitcev wrote: On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:35:19 +0100, Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The target wrote an SBP-2 status block into our memory. The status block contains the FireWire bus address of the ORB to which it belongs. [...] I see. SRP has a more flexible tag which can be

Bugfixes: PCI devices get assigned redundant IRQs

2007-01-26 Thread Andreas Block
Hi, I'm currently working on a port to a CPCI board with a MPC5200. When testing the PCI interrupt routing, I discovered the following: Even devices which don't use interrupts (- PCI Spec.: Interrupt Pin Register is zero), get an interrupt assigned (this is at least true for most of the

Re: [PATCH 1/4] lumpy reclaim v2

2007-01-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:57:34 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 16:59:35 + Andy Whitcroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + tmp = __pfn_to_page(pfn); ia64 doesn't implement __page_to_pfn. Why did you not use page_to_pfn()? Poke. I'm still a

Re: Bugfixes: PCI devices get assigned redundant IRQs

2007-01-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 11:50 +0100, Andreas Block wrote: u8 pin, slot; - int irq; + int irq = 0; Aren't there platforms for which irq = 0 is a valid irq ? Xav - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory between movable and non-movable pages

2007-01-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:44:58 + (GMT) Mel Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following 8 patches against 2.6.20-rc4-mm1 create a zone called ZONE_MOVABLE Argh. These surely get all tangled up with the make-zones-optional-by-adding-zillions-of-ifdef patches:

Re: [RFC] Track mlock()ed pages

2007-01-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:36:17 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: Christoph Lameter wrote: Add NR_MLOCK Track mlocked pages via a ZVC Why? I think it is not quite right. You are tracking the number of ptes that point

Re: + aio-completion-signal-notification.patch added to -mm tree

2007-01-26 Thread Sébastien Dugué
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:21:41 +0300 Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sebastien Dugue wrote: +static long aio_setup_sigevent(struct aio_notify *notify, + struct sigevent __user *user_event) +{ + sigevent_t event; + struct task_struct *target; + +

Re: fsync occasionally very slow

2007-01-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:37:38 -0500 Matthew Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on an application that fsync(2) files and directories as needed.I’m seeing intermittent stalls on fsync that can last many seconds. Please generate an all-task backtrace during the stall via: dmesg -n 8

Re: Juju

2007-01-26 Thread Stefan Richter
Kristian Høgsberg wrote: Another thing that probably makes my explanation a little confusing is that there are two types of transactions: FireWire transactions which consists of a request followed by a response and are pretty much the smallest interaction you can have with a remote

ipw2200 problem with 2.6.20-rc6

2007-01-26 Thread Ismail Dönmez
Hi, I recently saw this in dmesg after the wireless network suddenly stopped working and after some time it worked again: ipw2200/0: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20 [c0140996] __alloc_pages+0x27b/0x28c [c015397a] cache_alloc_refill+0x292/0x46f [c0153b9c] __kmalloc+0x45/0x51

Re: [PATCH 00/09] atomic.h : standardizing atomic primitives

2007-01-26 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:15 -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: atomic.h : standardizing atomic primitives It mainly adds support for missing 64 bits cmpxchg and 64 bits atomic add unless. Therefore, principally 64 bits architectures are targeted by these patches. It also adds the complete list

Re: [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] alsa: correct nonsensical sysfs device symlinks

2007-01-26 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:53:36 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/25/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anything else left to fix? Once that testing is done, no. But don't trust the two patches I sent yet, I'll resumbit the patch resulting from more thorough testing in a

Re: [RFC] Track mlock()ed pages

2007-01-26 Thread Nick Piggin
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: Christoph Lameter wrote: Add NR_MLOCK Track mlocked pages via a ZVC I think it is not quite right. You are tracking the number of ptes that point to mlocked pages, which can be = the actual number of pages. Mlocked pages

Re: + aio-completion-signal-notification.patch added to -mm tree

2007-01-26 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 01/26, S?bastien Dugu? wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:21:41 +0300 Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + target = good_sigevent(event); + + if (unlikely(!target || (target-flags PF_EXITING))) + goto out_unlock; PF_EXITING check is racy and unneded. In fact, it is

Re: [RFC] Track mlock()ed pages

2007-01-26 Thread Nick Piggin
Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:36:17 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't think of an easy way to do this without per-page state. ie. another page flag. Thats what I am trying to avoid. You could perhaps go for a walk across all the other vmas

Re: [PATCH 05/10] local_t : mips extension

2007-01-26 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 11:16:12AM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: From: Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Kroah-Hartman [EMAIL

Re: Intel PCI-E bridge ACPI resources and possibly related SATA unstability problems on ASUS A8Js

2007-01-26 Thread Martin Drab
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Oleg Verych wrote: On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:28:56PM +0100, Martin Drab wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Oleg Verych wrote: gmane.linux.kernel: recently I got my hands on an ASUS A8Js notebook (Core 2 Duo T7200, Intel 945 PM PCI-E Chipset, for details see

Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-26 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Qui, 2007-01-25 às 12:51 -0800, David Miller escreveu: From: Dirk Hohndel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:22:54 -0800 It's too damn repetitive to go to the same location over and over. Why do you think LCA tries to go to a different city every year and even let foreigners

Re: [PATCH 1/8] Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations that may be migrated

2007-01-26 Thread Nick Piggin
Mel Gorman wrote: It is often known at allocation time when a page may be migrated or not. This patch adds a flag called __GFP_MOVABLE and a new mask called GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE. Shouldn't that be HIGHUSER_MOVABLE? -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends

[GIT PULL] AVR32 fix + defconfig update

2007-01-26 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
Hi Linus, Please pull from the 'for-linus' branch of git://www.atmel.no/~hskinnemoen/linux/kernel/avr32.git for-linus to receive the following updates. This fixes a build error when compiling the ext3 filesystem as a module and adds the macb ethernet driver to the defconfig for

Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-26 Thread Bjørn Mork
Mauro Carvalho Chehab [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The company I work hold last year an ETSI internal meeting about IMS in Brasília. It were a very interesting experience. The meeting were closed to ETSI members and some people invited. After the meeting, there were two days of an open event.

Re: r8169 problems on x86_64 (transmit timeout crash)

2007-01-26 Thread mirek kratochvil
In case you have BIOS 04.., try to upgrade to 06.. version. Also, does it help when you boot with acpi=off kernel commandline parameter? (do you compile kernel with both acpi and apic support?). Jiri Kosina Upgraded to bios 0802, but still the same problem. I think it's definitely something

Re: 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-26 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't, but Dave Jones had a similar problem earlier this month, archived at http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0701.0/1822.html which I think is a followup from http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg105370.html - and

Re: [PATCH 2/3] ARM: Convert to use shared APM emulation.

2007-01-26 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 05:50:51PM +, Pavel Machek wrote: arch/arm/Kconfig | 29 ++ arch/arm/common/sharpsl_pm.c |2 - arch/arm/kernel/Makefile |1 arch/arm/mach-pxa/corgi_pm.c |2 - arch/arm/mach-pxa/sharpsl_pm.c |2 -

Re: Bugfixes: PCI devices get assigned redundant IRQs

2007-01-26 Thread Andreas Block
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:00:55 +0100, Xavier Bestel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 11:50 +0100, Andreas Block wrote: u8 pin, slot; - int irq; + int irq = 0; Aren't there platforms for which irq = 0 is a valid irq ? As far as I understand the PCI spec, the

[PATCH 2/3] ARM: Convert to use shared APM emulation.

2007-01-26 Thread Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle [EMAIL PROTECTED] arch/arm/Kconfig | 29 - arch/arm/common/sharpsl_pm.c |2 arch/arm/kernel/Makefile |1 arch/arm/kernel/apm.c | 672 - arch/arm/mach-pxa/corgi_pm.c |2

Re: + aio-completion-signal-notification.patch added to -mm tree

2007-01-26 Thread Sébastien Dugué
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:52:33 +0300 Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/26, S?bastien Dugu? wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:21:41 +0300 Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + target = good_sigevent(event); + + if (unlikely(!target || (target-flags

Re: In-tree version of new FireWire drivers available

2007-01-26 Thread Robert Crocombe
On 1/25/07, Pieter Palmers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to make one note here: We should have a way to use smaller DMA buffers than one page size. If I remember correctly, the page size on my system is 4096 bytes, being 1024 quadlets. If we assume a 4 channel audio stream, this corresponds

Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-26 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 10:23:40AM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:23:40 -0200 Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel

Re: [PATCH 1/8] Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations that may be migrated

2007-01-26 Thread Mel Gorman
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: Mel Gorman wrote: It is often known at allocation time when a page may be migrated or not. This patch adds a flag called __GFP_MOVABLE and a new mask called GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE. Shouldn't that be HIGHUSER_MOVABLE? I suppose, but it's a bit verbose. I

Re: Kernel 2.6.19.2 New RAID 5 Bug (oops when writing Samba - RAID5)

2007-01-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
Just re-ran the test 4-5 times, could not reproduce this one, but I'll keep running this kernel w/patch for a while and see if it happens again. On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:37:15 -0500 (EST) Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without digging too

Re: [rft] r8169: merge release 6.001.00 of Realtek's driver - take #1

2007-01-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
Francois Romieu wrote: Untested, straight from the release early dept. You have been warned. Realtek's driver restricts itself to 0x8169 and 0x8167. It won't be surprising if it breaks on anything else until I merge the new 0x8168 and 0x8136 bits. Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu [EMAIL

Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-26 Thread Alan
And since the cost of travel keeps being raised - in the past my tickets to Brazil (To Curitiba which from either Zuerich or Frankfurt had exactly same price) were typically 10-20% less than a ticket to the US west coast and well below the cost of getting to Ottawa. Cost for food, a bus or

[USBSERIAL] PL2303: Willcom WS002IN Support.

2007-01-26 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.c |1 + drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.h |5 + 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.c b/drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.c index 5dc2ac9..8d72a2e 100644 ---

Re: [RFC] Fair-user scheduler

2007-01-26 Thread Kirill Korotaev
Srivatsa, Current Linux CPU scheduler doesnt recognize process aggregates while allocating bandwidth. As a result of this, an user could simply spawn large number of processes and get more bandwidth than others. Here's a patch that provides fair allocation for all users in a system.

[PATCH 0/4] coredump: core dump masking support v2

2007-01-26 Thread Kawai, Hidehiro
Hi, This patch series is version 2 of the core dump masking feature, which enables you to specify the memory segment types you don't want to dump into a core file. In this version, the setting for which memory segment types are dumped is stored as a bit field and placed next to `dumpable' bit

[PATCH 1/4] coredump: add an interface to specify omitted memory segment types

2007-01-26 Thread Kawai, Hidehiro
This patch adds an interface to specify which memory segment types should be dumped or not. /proc/pid/core_flags file is provided as the interface. You can change the setting value (which memory segment types are dumped or not) for a particular process by writing to or reading from the file. The

[PATCH 2/4] coredump: enable to omit anonymous shared memory

2007-01-26 Thread Kawai, Hidehiro
This patch enables to omit anonymous shared memory from a core file when it is generated. If you don't want to dump shared memory segments of pid process, set the bit 0 of the /proc/pid/core_flags to 1. $ echo 1 /proc/pid/core_flags The debug messages from maydump() in fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c

[PATCH 3/4] coredump: add a sysctl parameter to disable the core dump omitting feature

2007-01-26 Thread Kawai, Hidehiro
This patch adds kernel.core_flags_enable sysctl parameter, which allows root user to disable the /proc/pid/core_flags feature globally. Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/binfmt_elf.c |3 ++- fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c |3 ++- fs/exec.c |1 +

[PATCH 4/4] coredump: documentation for proc and sysctl

2007-01-26 Thread Kawai, Hidehiro
This patch adds the documentation for the following parameters: /proc/pid/core_flags /proc/sys/kernel/core_flags_enable Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 42 +++ Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt| 11 +++

Re: Strange problem with tty layer

2007-01-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:16:39AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: I am now trying this, which so far seem to help (I had a printk in there earlier and managed to trigger that). --- ori/drivers/char/tty_io.c 2007-01-24 18:02:48.0 -0500 +++ new/drivers/char/tty_io.c 2007-01-25

Re: Preemption patches available in main stream

2007-01-26 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 22:58 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, sorry to ask, will the preemption patches of Ingo Molnar come into the mainstream kernel? Or is this already the case? Robert Love's preemption patches that turned the kernel into a preemptible kernel made it in back in

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory between movable and non-movable pages

2007-01-26 Thread Mel Gorman
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:44:58 + (GMT) Mel Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following 8 patches against 2.6.20-rc4-mm1 create a zone called ZONE_MOVABLE Argh. These surely get all tangled up with the

Re: 5 patches: updates to SPI and mmc_spi, kernel 2.6.19

2007-01-26 Thread Hans-Peter Nilsson
From: David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:59:37 -0800 So to summarize ... you now have MMC-over-SPI working on CRIS hardware, with these patches? Yes. FWIW, we'll ship with our ETRAX FS developer boards, soon enough (in a week or so, knock-on-wood). Can you yet

Re: Intel PCI-E bridge ACPI resources and possibly related SATA unstability problems on ASUS A8Js

2007-01-26 Thread Robert Hancock
Martin Drab wrote: Hmm, it may be. Was there suggested any solution (or at least proposal) that I may try? Try fix BIOS bugs: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/462632 ASUS refused to help fixing the BIOS with words that ASUS notebooks do not support Linux. So if we do not

Re: linux i386 kernel 2.4.16 2.4.22 scheduling issue?

2007-01-26 Thread Fei Liu
Robert Hancock wrote: Fei Liu wrote: Hello group, I have some concern about scheduling issue with 2.4.16 and 2.4.22 i386 kernel where I see 1200+ interrupts and context switches per second through vmstat when machine is under load. Is this behavior normal? Is there any know scheduling issue

Re: Strange problem with tty layer

2007-01-26 Thread Paul Fulghum
Lennart Sorensen wrote: Well it turns out that didn't help. Neither does 2.6.18 (that one was the easiest newer one to try). It does seem as if the error rate is lower with 2.6.18 than with 2.6.16, so perhaps there was more than one place that could cause losses in the tty buffering. I had

2.6.19.2: bad reads/writes from/to CMOS clock

2007-01-26 Thread yavuz
Hi everyone, I am running 2.6.19.2 kernel from kernel.org. This is my first SMP kernel. The problem I describe below has not happend with non-SMP kernels ever... I have installed my new AMD64 x2 4800 CPU just a few days ago. My mobo is Asus A8N SLI (Nvidia chipset). My problem with this

Re: Strange problem with tty layer

2007-01-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 08:51:02AM -0600, Paul Fulghum wrote: You can eliminate the tty buffering altogether by observing what gets passed to the line discipline. I will have to find where in the code that is happening. I assume you are using the default line discipline N_TTY. Look at what

Re: In-tree version of new FireWire drivers available

2007-01-26 Thread Pieter Palmers
Robert Crocombe wrote: On 1/25/07, Pieter Palmers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to make one note here: We should have a way to use smaller DMA buffers than one page size. If I remember correctly, the page size on my system is 4096 bytes, being 1024 quadlets. If we assume a 4 channel audio

Re: Intel PCI-E bridge ACPI resources and possibly related SATA unstability problems on ASUS A8Js

2007-01-26 Thread Luming Yu
On 1/26/07, Martin Drab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Oleg Verych wrote: On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:28:56PM +0100, Martin Drab wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Oleg Verych wrote: gmane.linux.kernel: recently I got my hands on an ASUS A8Js notebook (Core 2 Duo T7200,

Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz uploaded

2007-01-26 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi Serge, [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a): The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz has been uploaded to ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz It contains the following patches against 2.6.20-rc6: origin.patch [..]

Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-26 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/26/07, Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did give you a response. Find a way to pay for 80+ kernel summit invitees to travel to India (preferably in business class :-), and we'll talk. That's not realistic? Well, then perhaps having the concept of holding Kernel Summit in India is

Re: Strange problem with tty layer

2007-01-26 Thread Paul Fulghum
Lennart Sorensen wrote: I am not sure actually. I just open /dev/ttyn0 and /dev/ttyn1 and write to one, and read from the other. I didn't even know about the line diciplines actually. How do I tell which one I am using? ioctl(TIOCSETD/TIOCGETD) sets/returns an integer identifier that can be

Re: 2/5: Updates to SPI and mmc_spi: clock with cs inactive, kernel 2.6.19

2007-01-26 Thread Hans-Peter Nilsson
From: David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:05:42 -0800 On Wednesday 24 January 2007 8:50 pm, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote: The gotcha is that the SPI framework didn't have a way to express transfers with chip-select inactive. Sure, you can set chip-select to inactive

Re: [PATCH] libata-sff: Don't call bmdma_stop on non DMA capable controllers

2007-01-26 Thread Mark Lord
(Yeah, mmap() has taught some people about MAP_FAIL, but that's pretty unusual too. It's so unusual, that I regularly find buggy code checking for NULL instead of MAP_FAILED. Just about every program I look at has it wrong in at least one place. Ditto for the result value from wait() -- lots

Re: [PATCH 0/4] coredump: core dump masking support v2

2007-01-26 Thread Robin Holt
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:05:07PM +0900, Kawai, Hidehiro wrote: You can specify memory segment types you don't want to dump via /proc/pid/core_flags file, which is provided per process. This file represents a set of flags, but currently, only bit 0 is available. If bit 0 is set, the kernel

Re: [PATCH] libata-sff: Don't call bmdma_stop on non DMA capable controllers

2007-01-26 Thread Mark Lord
It's not as if people should be pulling 'raw' IRQ numbers out of a hat or even module parameters these days, except for ISA drivers.. Err.. in the embedded space, this is exceptionally common today, on the most modern of chips, too. Lots of magic hard(ware)-coded IRQ numbers. Cheers - To

Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz uploaded

2007-01-26 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Michal Piotrowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi Serge, [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa?(a): The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz has been uploaded to ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz It contains the following

Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz uploaded

2007-01-26 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Serge E. Hallyn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Quoting Michal Piotrowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi Serge, [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa?(a): The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-01-26-00-36.tar.gz has been uploaded to

Re: [RFC] Track mlock()ed pages

2007-01-26 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: Track mlocked pages via a ZVC Why? Large amounts of mlocked pages may be a problem for 1. Reclaim behavior. 2. Defragmentation You could perhaps go for a walk across all the other vmas which presently map this page. If any of them have

Re: [PATCH] 4/5: Updates to SPI and mmc_spi: mmc_spi updated, kernel 2.6.19

2007-01-26 Thread Hans-Peter Nilsson
From: David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:02:12 -0800 The MMC_SEND_CID command apparently never had showed before and I don't know how card status changes were noticed. It's been some time since I looked at that, but ISTR that there was special casing to handle

ncpfs and TCP vs UDP

2007-01-26 Thread Pierre Ossman
Hi Petr, I was hoping you could give me some input on another concern I have. Which of TCP and UDP is the preferred transport for NCP? The client for Windows seems to use TCP, which would suggest that that is the most tested dialect. I also did a quick test with bonnie++: UDP: Version 1.03

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Denis Vlasenko wrote: Well, I too currently work with Oracle. Apparently people who wrote damn thing have very, eh, Oracle-centric world-view. We want direct writes to the disk. Period. Why? Does it makes sense? Are there better ways? - nothing. They think they know better. I fear you are

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory between movable and non-movable pages

2007-01-26 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: - They add zillions of ifdefs They just add a few for ZONE_DMA where we alreaday have similar ifdefs for ZONE_DMA32 and ZONE_HIGHMEM. - They make the VM's behaviour diverge between different platforms and between differen configs on the same

Re: [PATCH] Add a rounddown_pow_of_two() macro to log2.h.

2007-01-26 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jan 26, 2007, at 02:24:35, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:32:12 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +/* + * round down to nearest power of two + */ +static inline __attribute__((const)) +unsigned long

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory between movable and non-movable pages

2007-01-26 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: I haven't thought about it much so I probably am missing something. The major difference I see is when only one zone is present. In that case, a number of loops presumably get optimised away and the behavior is very different (presumably better although

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